AUCTION THIS MONDAY 29 MAY 2017 OF SOME OF AN ESA MEMBER’S COLLECTION. Michael Aitken’s quality collection is well known from journal articles, ‘Cabinets of Wonder’ and our Show & Tell meetings.
Michael is making some changes to his collection and this presents an opportunity to others. There is a fabulous catalogue prepared by the auctioneers, by Australian Book Auctions. The images and text abut each item are from the catalogue. Here is the link to the catalogue.
There are travel guides:
DAYLESFORD, Victoria. DAYLESFORD AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. By “A Wanderer”. Octavo, with four attractive tinted lithographs, bound with the front wrapper in more recent buckram with leather spine label. Melbourne, Troedel & Co, 1885. Rare: a most attractive booklet published according to the front wrapper “by Authority of the Borough Council”. The wrapper title is more expansive: “Illustrated Handbook & Guide to Daylesford and Surrounding District”. Not in Beaumont; Ferguson, 18178 (calling for three plates only).
MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE. PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM of about 57 albumen paper photographic prints. Quarto, about 57 albumen paper prints mounted on 18 leaves, extracted from a larger album and bound in more recent binder’s cloth. Circa 1890s. Mainly city views: Melbourne for the most part but other localities noted (Ballarat, Morwell, Gippsland, etc.). An attractive series of views (and one native portrait), including many fine city buildings from the era of Marvellous Melbourne.
Map in COLLINS, David. AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES, with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand; compiled, by permission, from the Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King… [together with] AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES, from its first Settlement, in January 1788, to August 1801: with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country……………..Bound into the first volume of the present copy, evidently at the time of binding circa 1800 – 1805 is a folding manuscript map of the Australian continent with much detail of the named features on the coast; it has been suggested that Matthew Flinders may have contributed to the map. Casey Wood, 294; Davidson, pp. 90-2; Ferguson, 263 and 350; Hill 2, 335 (first volume only); Wantrup, 19 and 20.GILL, Samuel Thomas (mainly after). ADLER, C. (printed by). [MELBOURNE ROSE]. Engraved and chromolithographed circular roseate novelty souvenir, opened approximately 260 mm (extreme diameter); with four fold lines, as issued. Hamburg, From C. Adler’s Printing Establishment, circa 1860s. A rare Gill piracy and a very attractive novelty souvenir. Folded to form a small bouquet of pink roses printed in colour, the piece opens to form a circle with twenty-eight separate miniature engraved vignettes of (mainly) Melbourne streetscapes, buildings, etc. Most of the engravings appear to derive from Victoria Illustrated and other images by Gill. The Rose was evidently several times reprinted (as one would expect). The present example, like the Davidson copy (sale in our rooms, 4-5 August 2008, lot 167), has the publisher’s imprint on both recto and verso. There were at least two other versions of this Melbourne Rose produced: one we know to have been nominated “The Melbourne Rose Part II” on a printed envelope.
ANDERSON, J.L. & Sons (printer and publisher). VICTORIA’S LEADERS IN THE MOTOR CAR WORLD. Oblong quarto, pp. [130] (of which 15 are text and 22 are illustrated advertisements of which one is in colour), with 79 full-page photographs, ten route maps and descriptions, original wrappers, lettered and decorated in gilt and blue, overlapping edges a little frayed, a few margins with short sealed tears, the last four leaves (advertisements) with pale damp stains, preserved in a gilt-lettered folding cloth case. Melbourne, J.L. Anderson & Sons, Printers, n.d. but circa 1910. Very rare. Possibly published by subscription – a common practice at the time for publications of this sort – the book comprises principally photo-portraits of that modest number of rich Victorians who were motor car owners. The photographs by Dargie show the owners in their motor cars, usually with their grand houses in the background. The piece was possibly issued in late 1910 or in 1911 with one of the advertisements illustrating the “1911 model”.
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